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i hear all this talk about about the death tax, the estate tax. it's going give a windfall to the people. all themen money going the privilege people who built the pis business, made their money it's their money. which is it? do we have a country built on equal natural rights, where you can make the most of your life, get up, work hard, take risks, become successful, create jobs, grow businesses, do well, earn success, and yes, pass it on to your kids. what on earth is wrong with that? that's the american dream. and to my friend to my side of the aisle who simply don't like some of the spending in the bill. i don't like it either. let's cut the spending next year when we're in charge. there's junk in the tax code. everybody agrees with this. this is advancing some of the junk in the tax code and what i say to my friends on the other side of the aisle next year let's get rid of the junk of the tax code with we're in charge. right now, let's not hit the american people with the tax increase. if we want to get this debt under control, if we want to g
i hear all this talk about about the death tax, the estate tax. it's going give a windfall to the people. all themen money going the privilege people who built the pis business, made their money it's their money. which is it? do we have a country built on equal natural rights, where you can make the most of your life, get up, work hard, take risks, become successful, create jobs, grow businesses, do well, earn success, and yes, pass it on to your kids. what on earth is wrong with that? that's...
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additional tax cuts to middle-class families, tax cuts for healthcare, tax cuts to help families pay for their college tuition, tax cuts for childcare. these families are struggling and hurting and they need more tax relief, not less tax relief. but to help get us on the path to a balanced budget, we want to get rid of some of the bureaucratic spending in washington. they've actually layered on more supervisory people, people at the supervisory level in this government. we also want to close some corporate loopholes. i want to be honest with people. we can't eliminate this deficit. people have heard that over and over and over in four years. we cannot do it. we're in too deep a hole. but we can cut the deficit in half and move this country back on a path to fiscal responsibility >> 90 seconds, mr. vice president. >> the kerry record on taxes is one basically of voting for a large number of tax increases, 98 times in the united states senate. there's a fundamental philosophical difference here between the president and myself, who believe we ought to let the american people keep more
additional tax cuts to middle-class families, tax cuts for healthcare, tax cuts to help families pay for their college tuition, tax cuts for childcare. these families are struggling and hurting and they need more tax relief, not less tax relief. but to help get us on the path to a balanced budget, we want to get rid of some of the bureaucratic spending in washington. they've actually layered on more supervisory people, people at the supervisory level in this government. we also want to close...
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taxes or not support a tax reduction. 94 times. now, that's not what we need to create jobs and really bolster and heat up our economy. we do need the private sector to be able to keep more of what we earn and produce. government's going to have to learn to be more efficient and live with less if that's what it takes to rein in the government growth that we've seen today. but we do need tax relief, and barack obama even supported increasing taxes as late as last year for those families making only $42,000 a year. that's a lot of middle income, average american families, to increase taxes on them? i think that is a way to kill jobs and continue to harm our economy. >> moderator: senator? biden: charge is absolutely not true. barack obama did not vote to raise taxes. the vote she's referring to, john mccain voted the exact same way. it was a budget procedural vote. john mccain voted the same way, it did not raise taxes. number two, using the standard that the governor uses, john mccain voted 477 times to raise taxes. it's a bogus sta
taxes or not support a tax reduction. 94 times. now, that's not what we need to create jobs and really bolster and heat up our economy. we do need the private sector to be able to keep more of what we earn and produce. government's going to have to learn to be more efficient and live with less if that's what it takes to rein in the government growth that we've seen today. but we do need tax relief, and barack obama even supported increasing taxes as late as last year for those families making...
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the government can deny you tax-exempt status. even though it does involve your religious beliefs because there are some rules for the civil society and secular society and we are found on the principle that we get to have a organized non-chaotic government even if it does infringe on the religious belief as long as we are not targetting a religion a lot of what is going on with this birth control argument that the churches are wanting from the government have constitutional implications and with that i'm going to turn over to charlie who knows about that much more than i do. [applause] i don't know a darn thing about law. [applause] i and addressing this issue of women's economic rights to the right of contraceptive health care coverage in the light of the demands of religious liberty. so, some of the things we've talked about. in my judgment it's been understood in this country has been pointed out it's important but it can conflict with other rights. so therefore i also distinguish between religious liberty and the very strict
the government can deny you tax-exempt status. even though it does involve your religious beliefs because there are some rules for the civil society and secular society and we are found on the principle that we get to have a organized non-chaotic government even if it does infringe on the religious belief as long as we are not targetting a religion a lot of what is going on with this birth control argument that the churches are wanting from the government have constitutional implications and...
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he is also has also said he is going to deal with tax loopholes and i'm not a tax expert but it seems to me they're an awful lot of those loopholes and that will help and again when we are only talking about essentially 1.4% of the entire problem, it seems it doable to fix it. you can't fix it in one year. you can fix it in four years for sure, so at least i'm trying to answer your question. now i can't just sit back and listen to some of this stuff and be told in a fact, you dov, you just don't know any facts. first of all one little fact. i really wonder whether mr. panetta, who talks about the smallest number of ships since 1950, sent that in a letter to your former boss, senator mccain, would really be happy to hear that his argument is ridiculous. it wasn't a republican he made that case. it was mr. panetta. number one. number two, the navy is going to be bigger to kasai funded the ships that are being built. it takes a few years to get them out to see. look at the pattern of naval spending and the number of ships over the next few years. the air force, rich was very careful to t
he is also has also said he is going to deal with tax loopholes and i'm not a tax expert but it seems to me they're an awful lot of those loopholes and that will help and again when we are only talking about essentially 1.4% of the entire problem, it seems it doable to fix it. you can't fix it in one year. you can fix it in four years for sure, so at least i'm trying to answer your question. now i can't just sit back and listen to some of this stuff and be told in a fact, you dov, you just...
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raising taxes, raising taxes is not the answer. if you think about it washington, you should not want anybody to send my more money to washington until they learn fix what they spend today. if i held up a budget and put the holes and the leaks and the spending that's going on. you would say why would anybody want to put more water in the bucket. let's fix it. that's the difference. washington doesn't know how to spend the money they're getting already. we need make sure we are looking at every line item. we are borrowing 40 cents on the dollar for every thing we spend we need to make sure is it worth borrowing money from chinese to do this. >> moderator: a followup question, i'm start with you mr. renacci. how kickly -- quickly shouldly reached balance spended you supported the ryan budget which takes twenty five years to reach the goal. is that realistic or should it be shorter? renacci: i'm concerned that making social security, medicare, and medicaid are solvent. i want to make sure that those 55 and older have no changes to the
raising taxes, raising taxes is not the answer. if you think about it washington, you should not want anybody to send my more money to washington until they learn fix what they spend today. if i held up a budget and put the holes and the leaks and the spending that's going on. you would say why would anybody want to put more water in the bucket. let's fix it. that's the difference. washington doesn't know how to spend the money they're getting already. we need make sure we are looking at every...
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do we raise taxes? if we lower taxes do we get more revenue? what about cutting the size of government? it's just too big. in any downturn all of the businesses in this country cut staff, cut expenses. the government hasn't done the. they have just increased their expenses. >> jay? >> i think you have to look at the spending side of the ledger. in fact, the president said in the debate we need to look at medicaid because as he said it's the biggest driver of debt right now in our country. so there has to be, there has to be a focus and if entitlements are going to have to have a serious look. reform is going to be necessary in order to change the way we are spending money, if we want to continue to ensure that those who need to benefit do benefit in the future. but everything can be examined. every business in this country, every single day examines what they are spending money on, how they're spending the money, making sure that their processes in manufacturing are lean, mean that there is no waste. government can do the same. i know that stat
do we raise taxes? if we lower taxes do we get more revenue? what about cutting the size of government? it's just too big. in any downturn all of the businesses in this country cut staff, cut expenses. the government hasn't done the. they have just increased their expenses. >> jay? >> i think you have to look at the spending side of the ledger. in fact, the president said in the debate we need to look at medicaid because as he said it's the biggest driver of debt right now in our...